Attracting Frogs To Your Garden

As our human population expands and frogs lose their natural habitats it is important for the remaining frogs that we do all we can to attract and support them. Furthermore frogs are always a pleasure to see and are possibly at their most visible at this time of year as they go about their breeding.

There are three key ingredients when attracting frogs into your garden; they require water, cover and food. Let’s examine each of those in a little more depth.

Water

Frogs breed in ponds and ditches – basically non-moving fresh water and so providing this water will go a long way to attracting frogs into your garden. Whilst the larger the pond is the better, some people have even had success by sinking a childs swimming pool or even an icecream tub into the ground and keeping it topped up with water.

Ideally frogs like a proper pond environment with pond weed, other creatures to eat and so on and so getting prepared some months in advance is highly recommended. Once the water has had a chance to dechlorinate and pond animals like water beetles start to move in, so it will become of greater interest to frogs.

Try to provide a sloping rock to enable frogs to easily get in and out of the water – and this is especially important for the froglets that should make an appearance if frogs start to breed in your pond.

Cover

Frogs are secretive animals because not only are they on the menu for a wide variety of animals but they are also prone to drying out. So planting the area around your pond densely with perennial plants should help to make them feel safe and secure. The more of this undergrowth you have, the more frogs you will likely attract.

Food

Lastly the more food that is available to frogs in your garden, the more will likely be attracted to you. Frogs are carnivorous so anything you can do to attract potential insect prey to your garden will help. Having a pond alone will encourage in some insects but planting flowing plants – including spring-flowering bulbs – will draw in a range of nectar feeders and so help to provide food for your frogs.

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